Doctoral student Maaly Al Omary has been selected as a UWM Teaching Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year. According to the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the award speaks to her “dedication to student success, exceptional pedagogy, and …
Yahya Aldholmi (PhD 2018) has been promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Congratulations, Yahya!
Faculty member Anne Pycha, along with colleagues at UC Davis, have two new publications: Zellou, G., Cohn, M., and Pycha, A. (in press). The effect of listener beliefs on perceptual learning. Language. Zellou, G., Pycha, A., and Cohn, M. (2023). The perception …
Graduate student Allie Potter successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Variability is Key: How French Liaison Production in Nigerien French Sheds a Light on Dialectal and Acquisition Differences.” Congratulations, Allie!
MA TESOL student Bielasan Zaina successfully defended her Master’s paper, “Morphosyntactic Structures of Progressive Aspect in the Oral Production of Heritage Najdi Arabic Speakers.” Congratulations, Bielasan!
MA TESOL student Patrice Vnuk successfully defended her Master’s paper, “English literacy for non-print-literate adult English learners: Combining Experiential Learning and the Language Experience approach.” Congratulations, Patrice!
Linguistics undergraduate Emma Blanchette was one of a select group of students inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate academic honor society. You can read more about her here. Congratulations, Emma!
Recent graduate Sean Weaver (UWM 2022) has an accepted an offer to pursue an MPhil degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He will start in the fall of 2023. Congratulations, Sean!
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